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drive-by planet: Syria and the use of ‘humanitarian interventionism’ to drive the real agenda
Since the Syrian conflict broke out some on the left have bought into calls for humanitarian intervention, even if it does mean tacit support for American-backed interference in yet another Middle Eastern country. Neo-liberal governments and their militaries increasingly employ the language of humanitarianism to elicit support as they pursue
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Turks arrest al-Nusra rebels – seize chemical weapons: the west’s Syrian delusions
There has been very little coverage in western media of a current story in Turkish dailies that places chemical weapons in the hands – not of forces connected with Assad – but of the opposition al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front. The Turkish paper Zaman reports that members of al-Nusra planned to bomb
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